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Plinth

· Private foundation

The Hesed Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Religion$114kInternational$36kPublic Benefit$24kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$17kEducation$5kCivil Rights$4kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,800
Median grant
9
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AWAKENED HEART PROJECT$50,000
BELOVED BUILDERS INC$17,000
JUST VISION$15,000
SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND$12,500
MULTITUDE FILMS$10,000
LANDER-GRINSPOON ACADEMY$5,000
DEMOCRACY NOW$5,000
ALEPH$5,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$5,000
KADIMA RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITY$3,600
TIKKUN OLAM CHAVURAH$2,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$1,800
THE INTERCEPT$1,800
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,500
EVERYDAY ZEN FOUNDATION$1,200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $17k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
DC
OK
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$150k · 3 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$150k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    AWAKENED HEART PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue -75% · 69% of their budget
  • JV
    Just Vision Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue 0%
  • SS
    SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • SC
    Shalom Center
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • Y
    YERUSHA
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -14%
  • WL
    Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

4
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
5
Jewish World Watch

Jewish world watch is an expression of judaism in action, bringing help and healing to survivors of mass atrocities around the globe and seeking to inspire people of all faiths and cultures to join the ongoing fight against genocide.

Education
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education
9
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
10
Global Witness

Our goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. we want forests and biodiversity to thrive, fossil fuels to stay in the ground and corporations to prioritize the interests of people and the planet.

International
11
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
12
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsGovernment Accountability R…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%80%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,734

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
9/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AWAKENED HEART PROJECT — $100,000 · ReligionAWAKENED HEART PROJECTShalom Center — $5,000 · Religion+1 more — $1,000 · ReligionJust Vision Inc — $32,500 · InternationalJust Vision Inc+7 more — $1,596 · InternationalMULTITUDE FILMS INC — $10,000 · OtherMULTITUDE FILMS…Lander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Schechter Day School — $5,000 · OtherLander-Grinspoo…ALEPH — $5,000 · OtherALEPHKADIMA — $3,600 · OtherKADIMATIKKUN OLAM CHAVURAH — $2,000 · OtherTIKKUN OLAM CHA…THE INTERCEPT — $1,800 · OtherTHE INTERCEPTEVERYDAY ZEN FOUNDATION — $1,200 · Other+5 more — $1,750 · Other+5 moreSOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND — $17,500 · Public BenefitSOCIAL SE…BELOVED BUILDERS INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $1,800 · Arts & CultureWOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART INC — $500 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Religion$106,000International$34,096Other$30,350Public Benefit$17,500Human Services$17,000Arts & Culture$12,300Philanthropy$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAWAKENED HEART PROJECT — $100,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Schechter Day School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShalom Center — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYERUSHA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWoodstock Land Conservancy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $396 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Hesed Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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